Help Wanted: City Finance Committee To Discuss Alerus Contract Wednesday 4pm
If anyone can help me out it’d be great. On Wednesday 4pm the City Finance Committee is having a meeting devoted at this time to the Alerus Contract with Venuworks as well as discussing open positions on the Alerus Commission.
Both of these are fascinating subjects. The contract with Venuworks concerns how the Alerus Commission had an illegal secret unrecorded meeting where they waived provisions of the 2008 with Venuworks. They didn’t have the guts to let the public know what kids of deal they were cutting with Venuworks.
The other topic is interesting is that they have vacancies on the commission. They’ve had one that they haven’t been able to fill for quite some time because of the requirement that one position be filled with someone from the hospitality industry. Since the Alerus is meant to benefit one and only one hotel (The CanadInn) and competes with the restaurant industry it’s understandable that no one would lend their expertise to make things worse.
‘That leaves the question if there are more than one vacancy who left? Was it the “you’re a moron” guy, David Evenson getting asked to leave? Or was it someone with morals that doesn’t like what’s going on there and doesn’t want to be involved in the illegality (specifically the secret meetings) going on there?
If one or more Say Anything readers would go there we’d greatly appreciate it. If you have a Readers Blog you can write it up yourself or you can (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Everyone I’ve asked to go so far has had work conflicts. (I wonder why they have meetings during work hours anyway?)
It on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 in room A101 at 4:00 p.m.
I hate to leave it to the City Beat reporter who’s only concern is trying to make the Alerus Gang look less bad.
